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S18.E1 ∙ The Graham Greene Trilogy - Part 1: England Made Me

Thu, Jan 07, 1993

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S18.E2 ∙ The Graham Greene Trilogy - Part 2: The Dangerous Edge

Fri, Jan 08, 1993

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S18.E3 ∙ The Graham Greene Trilogy - Part 3: A World of My Own

Sat, Jan 09, 1993

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S18.E5 ∙ The Grateful and the Dead

Thu, Jan 21, 1993

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S18.E6 ∙ A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie

Thu, Jan 28, 1993

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S18.E8 ∙ Edward Said: The Idea of Empire

Thu, Feb 11, 1993

Edward Said, a Palestinan writer, academic and exile, talks about his book "Culture and Imperialism" and explains how the attitudes forged over the last 200 years continue to enforce the relationship between the west and the developing world.

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S18.E9 ∙ The Last Soviet Citizen

Thu, Feb 18, 1993

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S18.E10 ∙ Derek Walcott

Thu, Feb 25, 1993

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S18.E11 ∙ Zhang Yimou

Thu, Mar 11, 1993

Director of Ju Dou, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern is interviewed from within China whilst making a commercial for Philip Morris (China is one of the largest consumers of cigarettes in the world). Although many of his films have been banned inside his native China, Zhang Yimou is fast becoming the most celebrated Chinese director in the world.

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S18.E12 ∙ Philip Roth: My True Story

Thu, Mar 18, 1993

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S18.E13 ∙ Only the Names Have Been Changed....

Thu, Mar 25, 1993

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S18.E14 ∙ Weegee/Duchamp's Fountain

Thu, Apr 01, 1993

Two segments about men on the 25th anniversary of their death: Wilma Wilcox speaks about her husband, the crime photographer Weegee, and Beatrice Wood talks her lover Marcel Duchamp and his urinal.

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S18.E15 ∙ Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat

Sun, Apr 11, 1993

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S18.E16 ∙ Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Peggy Sue

Fri, Apr 16, 1993

Peggy Sue Gerron Rackham tells how Buddy Holly's songs Peggy Sue and Peggy Sue Got Married came to be written. She went to the same high school as Holly and married drummer Jerry Allison. Other people recall the era, including Donna Fox who inspired Ritchie Valens' song, Donna.

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S18.E17 ∙ Not a Bad Girl - Brenda Fassie is South Africa's answer to Madonna

Sat, Apr 17, 1993

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S18.E18 ∙ Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Heartbreak Hotel

Fri, Apr 23, 1993

Once upon a time a headline caught the eye of 2 songwriters, and the song caught the eye of a rising star.

7.8 /10

S18.E19 ∙ Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Walk on the Wild Side

Fri, Apr 30, 1993

Tells the story behind Lou Reed's song Walk on the Wild Side. The characters named in it were people who frequented Andy Warhol's studio in the late 1960s. Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro are the only "superstars" who have survived and they are interviewed in the programme. The programme presents a snapshot of a certain moment in the life of New York's underground culture.

8.3 /10

S18.E20 ∙ Tales of Rock 'N' Roll: Highway 61 Revisited

Fri, May 07, 1993

Investigates Bob Dylan's origins in Hibbing, Minnesota and takes a musical and historical journey down Highway 61 itself. John Bucklen, a teenage companion of Bob Dylan, provides some new insights into Dylan's earliest musical experiments and the journey Dylan himself undertook from a middle- class rock'n'roller in Hibbing to fashionable protest singer in New York.

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